MSNBC Anchor: "Our Job" Is To "Control Exactly What People Think"

During a lively discussion centered on fears that President Trump is "trying to undermine the media,"MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski let slip the awesome unspoken truth that the media's "job" is to "actually control exactly what people think."

SCARBOROUGH: "Exactly. That is exactly what I hear. What Yamiche said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. They go, 'Yeah you guys are going crazy. He's doing -- what are you so surprised about? He is doing exactly what he said he is going to do.'"

BRZEZINSKI: "Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job."

As grabien points out, the comment failed to raise any eyebrows from her co-panelists. Instead, her co-host, Joe Scarborough, said that Trump's media antagonism puts him on par with Mussolini and Lenin...

(i don't have cable or a dish, but the scum i pay for online services charges over quadruple if there was a free market vs the very same few corps running media and ISPs - a toxic synergy if there ever was one.)

They're TOLD what to think by their evil masters, which obviously is that they need to control what the masses think and do. They are so far out of touch with reality and real people, they need to be knocked out of their ivory towers.

Nice try, Tyler, but this comment is WAY cherry picked and can be interpreted - even in the clip you offer - differently than you are interpreting it. The MSM is way out of control; don't get me wrong. But to put this kind of "evidence" out as proof hurts your case. Stick to situations that are more clear cut than this or you will only destroy your own credibility as much as places like MSNBC have already destroyed theirs.

And the media leaches begin to expose themselves for the evil they are.

Talk about being un-American, the media of today is as un-American as it has ever been.

I remember when newspapers and news organizations had a responsibility to report the UNBIASED news. They used to have a one page opinion section. Now it is the other way around. Everything is an opinion piece whether the reader wants an opinion or not. The Honest News Reporter doesn't exist in today's media.

she meant what she said, or worse. the legacy media's blanket support of hillary clinton, in the face of her three failed wars and stack of a million corpses, her absolute negligence with regard to prosecuting the greatest control fraud in history (instead she takes their bribes), and her promises to confront the nuclear (and very well conventionally) armed russia over anything and everything (the crimea is theirs) is the tell. the fix is in. a small number of likud/mossad zionists determine the legacy media line and want to continue to determine the policy of the u.s. government

What are you protesting about? Tyler put a verbatim transcript right below the clip minus some of her stumbling. She did say that. And given how often Trump is right and they NEVER acknowlege it. They are protesting the loss of influence of their biased narrative NOT facts ie... their ability to keep brainwashing the public.

By abruptly cutting the video where it is cut, the story is the one presented by the Tylers. But what I could equally easily interpret here is that what she said was "That is our job..." Those ellipses are a major difference. My sense is that the conversation was moving quickly, and that had she been allowed to continue, she was making a point of "That is our job, is to hold Trump to account for manufacturing information." Am I putting words in her mouth? Yes, but based on the video above, I could easily see her going that direction.

Do I trust the press to accurately present information in an "unbiased" manner? Never. I believe "unbiased" information does not exist, and the main root of the problem is the MSM propagation of the myth that they represent some kind of "objectivity", which is complete bullshit.

But a cut like this does nothing but to oppose extreme bias in one direction with extreme bias in the other.

There are plenty of clear-cut examples of press bias. My favorite was the montage a few years ago of all the "local" news sources spouting exactly the same corporate-controlled message. That was great journalism. There can be no reasonable interpretation of that kind of montage without the 100% inescapable conclusion of press manipulation.

In cases like this, however, where a hostile-to-the-press viewer such as me can easily imagine an alternative interpretation which is not so damning to the MSM, a person who is on the fence will be turned off by the manipulative nature of what the Tylers have presented.

It's a question of strategy. Presenting cases which work mosty because your audience already agrees with you will not work to convince people "in the middle" of your case.

Even if that video / story is BS / fake news due to the way it's presented its still the truth and I'm pretty sure 99% of the people on ZH know that the leftists / media are pravda. My goodness...did anyone rush out and tell someone that this event just happened....

That is completely untrue. The most charitable interpretation of her comments is that "Only we know the FACTS to present to the audience" (such as it may be, which, in the case of MSNBC is not many). SO what it comes down to is that only MSNBC knows the facts, which is demonstably FALSE. You can have your own opinions but NOT your own facts. Russia would be a very good example?

all we have is lies, propaganda, half truths and subversion representing the shadow powers(our controllers)

all we have is a pulpit of authority

all we desire is your mind and control over your thoughts

all you have to do is listen

DO NOT THINK CRITICALLY

tune in daily for your brainwash

thinking to much will create conflict that could be very upsetting emotionally

this could lead to depression and an understing that everything has been one big lie.

for your own well being do not, i repeat don't think critically..

ps. russia, as we have said repeatly is planning to take over the world and will be bombing america unless we stop it.

don't question the narrative, because for the above reasons we need you on board to invade and conqueer. same with 7 other nations america has liberated. winning with the media. believe and it will become your reality...

I just find it amazing that the daughter of one of the actual 'masterminds' behind NATO expansion towards Russia really works for MSNBC. If there ever was any doubt about the corporate media having a hidden deep state agenda, this should put all those doubts into the toilet.

I'd have ta try 8 or 100 test runs at that to see it it was up to snuff! It ain't her brain that I like! And THEY know it too! Most of America would do her, so would you, especially if you were making $ 7000.00 a month working part time!